1. Feelin Good
2. Flyin High
3. Try A Little Harder
4. Stranger On The Road
5. Save Your Time
6. Dancin Man
7. Island Of Life
8. Junkie's Dream
9. Madness
10. Mother


http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009H5IRMW/?tag=imwan-21

Wow-this is great. As recently as this summer this was still going for close to $100 used (not anymore-ha!). Rock Candy will be doing a variety of other Blackfoot albums so this is certainly cool as I totally dig these guys-one of the great Southern Rock bands ever.

Got to to hand to "Rock Candy", right IP. Those guys at that label love to rock.

Rick A.

Cool. I had all the Blackfoot albums on LP back in the day but never got around to replacing them all on CD. Would like to revisit them and pick up the ones I'm missing eventually.

Special Deluxe Collector s Edition / Fully remastered sound shaped from 24 BIT digital technology / Classic Southern Rock / 12 page full colour booklet 3,500 word essay, enhanced artwork, rare photos and new interview with front man Rickey Medlocke.
REGIONAL MUSIC has always been the backbone of rock & roll. Chicago blues, Nashville country, Appellation bluegrass and Memphis soul are just a few examples. However, it wasn't until the early 70s that, what was termed, Southern rock, first gained a foothold in the public s wider conscience. It was a highly stylised sound that hailed exclusively from the American South leaning heavily on several influences giving rise to a number of lauded acts such as the Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet and... Blackfoot.
Hailing from Jacksonville by way of Gainesville, Blackfoot s rise to prominence was like, so many others, both slow and painful. Front man and leader Rickey Medlocke had himself been struggling for years as a drummer, most notably with an early incarnation of Lynyrd Skynyrd, before forming Blackfoot and being signed to Island Records before moving over to the Epic label for this, their second, release.
With three Native American Indians in their line-up, Blackfoot s sound was part Lynyrd Skynyrd and part Led Zeppelin helping to consolidate a sound that would later springboard them to international acclaim in the 80s. Recorded at the famed Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama, with notable session musicians David Hood and producers Jimmy Johnson, Flyin High was originally released in 1976 and remains a terrific example of a band finding not only their sound but also their direction.

Got this for Christmas and damn, what an album this is. Been decades since I heard it and it has long been out of print and fetching insane dollars for years.

As usual, Rock Candy did a phenomenal job with the remastering and liner notes. This is such a good album it's baffling Epic didn't work it when it came out back in 1976 when Southern Rock was doing so well, although this album is very Hard Rock-oriented.

It's a very raw, hard-rocking album and the guitar work is smoking (not to mention the powerful rhythms). It was recorded and produced at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios by Jimmy Johnson and David Hood which I had totally forgotten.

So many great songs like "Dancin' Man", "Flyin' High", "Junkie's Dream", "Feelin' Good" and "Island Of Life". The guitars blaze! And things end with the beautiful acoustic lament "Mother".

Anyway, I highly recommend this puppy. If you guys are into pure, authentic Rock and Roll and want it done right-get this!

Never actually heard this one. I really liked the Strikes-Tomcattin'-Marauder run, but I bailed out when the 80's sound and a keyboard player came around.

How does this one rate against that "peak period"?

This one is right up there with all of those. Those are due next for the remastering by the way. The last good album IMO was SIOGO in 1983 which had ex-Uriah Heep keyboardist Ken Hensley. He worked very well on that album adding a Heep/Purple sound into the mix (although a few cheesy 80s synth sounds appeared-but not too many) but after that they went to crap.

If you like heavy Southern Rock, this album is for you. It is pretty raw and live sounding, but in a very good way.

I'd completely forgotten this band ever existed, IP. In spite of being one the few Southerners here on IMWAN, I must admit to having almost zero appreciation for Southern Rock. I love the Atlanta Rhythm Section and the more pop-leaning songs by .38 Special, but once you get past them and the odd single ("Jackie Blue" from the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, for instance), the whole genre escapes me.

A funny aside: One of the most surreal experiences I've ever had was during my first trip to Helsinki, when we happened upon a music festival on the waterfront with a local band (all of them in their 20s and all of them clean-cut blonds) playing "Sweet Home Alabama." So clearly the music has its fans far and wide...

David:
It is stunning to me that Southern Rock is popular overseas as I always saw that as not only a national thing, but also a regional thing just in the US.

I myself always like the heavier Southern acts such as Blackfoot, Doc Holliday and Molly Hatchet, but I also totally love the Southern/Country Rock of The Outlaws and Marshall Tucker Band.

But like you, I also liked the commercial acts such as .38 Special and Point Blank.

Of course it gets no bigger than Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Bros Band. The you get into the debate of who else is Southern such as ZZ Top, Black Crowes, Georgia Satellites-I think they all qualify but I'm not sure! ZZ Top are the toughest one-are they Southern Rock just because they're from Texas? They don't sound like the others and it's hard to know!

But even on their own regardless of genre, Blackfoot were a mean-ass band and they were big in the UK for a while in the early 80s-so big that their legendary live album from 1982 Highway Song (which will be remastered) was only an import in the US! So strange! And yet, MTV played the hell out of "Train Train" from that album.

And here's a question to any Blackfoot fans-that MTV version of "Train Train" is awesome and even better than what is on the live album. Does anyone know where that version is from and why it's not on the album itself?

Seemingly incongruously, Long Island was a hotbed for southern and country rock in the late 70s. But then again, it was also a hotbed for disco, and, a few years later, new wave.

I'm in. Ordered this with my Eddie Money order.

Rick A.